Chapter 106: Hunky and smart
The rest of the day passed with a blur. Kellen and the Captain didn’t even go to the medical bay for their guiding session, and instead did it in a small guiding room on the conference level with Taylor beside them. She’d taken a small, portable machine with her, since she was also going to be busy with everything that was going on.
They still hadn’t found out the identity of who had come out of the gates. By now, Maeve was already on her way to the front lines, along with Lieutenant Miro. He was going as a plant consultant, and to see if his powers could affect any of the poisonous ones growing around the gate. If he could, there was a chance he could slow the poison spreading down, but changing what growth level the plants were at.
Captain Sergei had evacuated the area around the gate back. Thankfully, Sakura’s Guild had created a poison measuring machine, and with its help they were able to get back to safe levels. But it was clear the poison was everywhere. It was alarming, and worrying to everyone. But, the Captain’s had come to some kind of agreement of sharing the load.
The D.E.C. was going to take the full frontal blame. At this point, it was only a matter of when the public found out about everything. The Captains had decided that with the PR that the D.E.C. had, they made the most sense.
The Nemesis Guild was going to provide the hazard suits, made from materials from their own gate, with help from the scientists they hired, as well as the Captain’s, and Sakura’s Guild as well.
Sakura was going to provide help with the poison. She was still nervous about contacting their joint acquaintance, but this time she was going to use Kellen’s name so they couldn’t say no as easily. But even without their help, they did have a team that focused on poisons, and they had done this before they had arrived. She was the best hope for potentially finding an antidote.
The Captain was providing people. Manpower. Their Guild had the specialization of closing gates, therefore, they were the best to go into the gate to close it. Everyone who would be selected for the teams going inside would be veterans, people who had already closed gates. People who knew what they were getting into.
That team hadn’t been selected yet, especially since the first scout team hadn’t ’left’ the gate, and the gate needed to be observed again. No one was going into the gate for at least a week. Probably a month if they could get away with it. With the gate still fluctuating on the extreme end of the scale, the experts had all agreed that they could probably hold off on worrying about a gate explosion.
So, there was a tentative plan. Captain Sergei was going to stay on the front lines for the time being, while Hill would eventually join him there once they had selected the team. That team would then go into several gates for training purposes before eventually going into the gate once Sakura had come up with an antidote of sorts.
They would then, hopefully, take in a recording device so that they could observe what the gate looked like inside, and then come back out. Safely. Alive. With minimal injuries.
But it was a worry, because if the gate wasn’t incredibly dangerous from the get go, why didn’t the scout team turn around? Was there something preventing them from doing so? It was a concern, and there hadn’t been many gates who had locked up behind them, so they were going to have to prepare for the worst case scenario.